At least we’re on the winning side. Imagine being a leftoid these days.
I’m running out of room to hold all the winning, and we haven’t finished the first three weeks yet...
Peanut Boy would not be happy.
No fees until Trump leaves office.
I still think we need to take back the Oanama Canal into US hands. They broke tge treaty, we must take it back.
Not satisfied. I want the USS Gerald Ford to cruise up to the mouth of the canal and order all those pygmies off our property.
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ship fees are mainly symbolic (for both sides....). I think the real goal is force HW out of the ports and panama out of Belt and Road, which they have already announced.
The idea 30 years of HW operation of the ports being undone se quickly is surreal to me. I wonder if there is a side-deal with china on this vis a vis taiwan and south china sea.
Panama DID put a potload of money into expanding the canal for larger ships, and also managing the water supply better*, so, I’d be ok with a reasonable fee if we send through a ship needing the expanded capacity — a carrier, perhaps?
Otherwise, I agree with others here that the main issue is sidelining the Chinese.
*More improvement are needed on the latter. It’d really be the “shits” if we needed to quickly move a task force through the canal, and the water supply was insufficient.
Morning news had it that the report is wrong and US ships will be charged. FWIW